Resilient and Intelligent NextG Systems (RINGS)

October 20, 2023

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Presentation Overview

1 Introduction

2 What’s new

3 Why It’s Important

4 What Resiliency Really Means

5 Why Resiliency di ffi cult

6 Summary

7 References

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Introduction

• The RINGS program is NSF’s single most significant effort to

date to engage government, academic, and industry partners
in a joint research program
• The Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems
program
– a new initiative that seeks to accelerate research in areas
with potentially significant impact on Next-Generation
networking and computing systems.
• Key federal agencies part of the RINGS initiative –
• NSF
• U.S. Department of Defense
• other tech leaders like NSIT , apple , ericsson etc.

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What’s new

• Projects must develop

• advanced radio technologies
• spectrum allocation
• edge/cloud computing
• cognitive networks
• microservices, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine
learning (ML)

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Why It’s Important

• today’s communication networks are not resilient or

performant enough
• the networks of the future require a system-level mindset that
addresses all layers of the protocol stack.
• Enable machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and
• Provide low-latency computational and storage resources
on-demand at the edge and in the cloud.
• it will explore emergent network architectures impacting RAN,
and the network core underpinning future agile B5G MIL
networks

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What Resiliency Really Means

• Resistance to or high tolerance of attacks, failures, and service

disruptions, with rapid root cause identification
• Graceful degradation of services and rapid adaptability when
resource availability is impacted by disruptive events

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Why Resiliency
di ffi cult

• Base system components, such as towers, antennas,

fiber-optic cables, computing, storage devices, and software
systems and services are susceptible to failure during extreme
weather events.
• Increasing reliance on ML/AI techniques within the network
may expose additional attack vulnerabilities.

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Summary

• RINGS program will extend and accelerate the network

transformation that began with SDN and network functions
virtualization (NFV) and continues with advances in
programmable accelerators and AI/ML solutions

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References

https://www.digital-summit.jp/2021/pdf/dl/0608s 4T hyagaN andagopal.pdf

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21581/nsf21581.htm
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3075532/dod-and-nsf-
kick-off-resilient-and-intelligent-nextg-systems-program/

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Thank you

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